The Life of Richard Strauss

ISBN-13: 9780521578950 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 212 str.

Bryan Gilliam

Opis

Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and misfires of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.

Recenzje

' ... well written, informative and perceptive ... After this admirable book, the reader can return to listening to Strauss with added enjoyment.' Contemporary Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Musical development and early career; 2. 'Onward and away to ever-new victories': Strauss's emergence as a tone poet; 3. The rise of an opera composer; 4. Between two empires: Strauss in the 1920s; 5. After Hofmannsthal: personal and political crises; 6. 'Now the day has made me tired': the War and its aftermath.